12.20.2008 U.S. President-elect Obama's Weekly Address
Barack Obama introduced the team of men and women who will head up the nation's major
scientific departments.
Whether it’s the science to slow global warming; the technology to protect our troops and
confront bioterror and weapons of mass destruction; the research to find life-saving cures;
or the innovations to remake our industries and create twenty-first century jobs - today,
more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and
prosperity as a nation.
It is time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to restore America’s
place as the world leader in science and technology.

&nbsp08.08.2008 XXIV Summer Olympic Games in Bejing started!
All the best to the Team USA!
30 June, 2008 RussianClimb.com
Dodo Kopold's great success! 15th of June, Dodo Kopold and Vlado Plulik (both Slovakia)
summited Gasherbrum I. They managed it from the saddle between GI and GII in one push
in 16 hours (up and down, north face). In 15 days from their arrival under the Gasherbrums
they both climbed Gasherbrum I and Dodo climbed also the French pillar of Gasherbrum II
(alpine style, the 9th of June, when Vlado finished some 300m under the summit).
June, 26 Dodo summited Broad peak. The 25th Dodo Kopold and Vlado Plulik started from
Broad Peak BC. They arrived 300m below the summit in the afternoon, had some rest there and
returned to 7200m, where they had left some gear. In the morning Vlado continued the normal
route and probably didn?t summit. Dodo continued up, through a new variation of the route,
and reached the top at about 9 pm (the 26th). He said this was his hardest climb yet in Himalaya.
Conditions were really bad. He had to bivouac at 8000 meters on descent, without gear or a tent.
He is now in BC.
Congratulations!
23.06.2008 Wayfare on Russia Today. Kabardino-Balkaria.
In Memory of Sir Edmund Hillary